Perhaps the most outstanding of this quartet is Fincher, who made his debut with his contribution to this SF franchise and went on to make movies that take us to the edge of urban paranoia. Se7en, The Game, Fight Club and Panic Room are all disturbing, claustrophobic thrillers, but the most jarring is the dark, apocalyptic fable, Fight Club, adapted by Jim Uhls from Chuck Palahniuk's novel.

It's a scary black thriller in which 30-year-old unnamed yuppie (Ed Norton), discontented with his well-paid job and complacent consumerism, is advised by a shrink to attend support groups and see real suffering. There, he meets a fellow 'disease tourist' (Helena Bonham Carter). Then, on one of his frequent plane trips, he encounters the raffish charmer Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, right), who is, in the manner of James Hogg's Justified Sinner, Martin Amis's Money and tales by Poe and Dostoevsky, his doppelganger.

The volatile, charismatic Tyler leads him into an underground of ludic antisocial behaviour and together they launch the clandestine Fight Club where men can find masochistic relief by battering each other senseless. This subversive movie begins inside the hero's head and gets into our minds and under our skins as it exploits the discontents of men at the end of the 20th century and satirises our fantasies of finding a more natural existence.

Apart from being bizarrely funny, Fight Club is a morally and visually complex work featuring two young actors who have been unafraid of playing lunatics, fascists and psychopaths and it was the subject of considerable critical abuse and even demands for a ban. This definitive two-disc edition features four different audio commentaries and restores two scenes cut by the BBFC.